The first problem is a certain kind of black screen at startup. Barry fixed this
for Precise 5.4.3 but it exists on Slacko 5.4 and Racy 5.3.9. It occurs on
about 1 in 5 startups on all four of my PCs here all having Pentium 4 cpus
with clock rates between 1.7 and 2.0 ghz. Barry said it's a problem with
Rox Filer. The task bar at the bottom of the screen is ok but the rest of the
screen is black when the problem manifests. Doing a restart X server results
in the desktop appearing.

The other problem is due to a power management bug in some 3.X kernels
that makes wireless almost unuseable with certain hardware. A work-
around is to insert the line:

iwconfig wlan0 power off

in some file that runs at startup such as /etc/rc.d/rc.local (or rc.sysinit)

I've been using XMMS for audio playback for a decade now and didn't want to change, but on Slacko 5.4 the version in PPM won't run. Trying from console there was a lib not found, GTK I think? Anyway I uninstalled and instead installed the old faithful .pet from Smokey01's site, and it works fine. Fried Hockey Boogie, anyone?

Other multimedia notes: both MHWaveEdit and Avidemux seem fine, but don't try to read recordings made by Windows Media Center with Avidemux. Not only does the importer module crash, the whole application does.

This is more a problem of ffmpeg than of Slacko, but the backwards compatibilty is a headache. Linphone compiles OK in Slacko 5.3.3 but fails in Slacko 5.4 apparently because the ffmpeg version is too new.

I can compile and install ffmpeg 0.8.12 and then Linphone will compile, but that means my final executable package (and dot pet) has to contain the rather large older version of libavcodec.so.* increasing it to over double the size.

Is there any way to re-establish the compatibilty with the existing ffmpeg in Slacko 5.4?

By the way, the DeaDBeef developer points out:-

Quote:

the ffmpeg developers have been breaking their APIs many times before, and we were fixing the plugin again ang again, but this time (ffmpeg-0.11) they broke it in a way which makes it impossible to use together with deadbeef libmms plugin.

....so it is not just me that has encountered problems._________________Oscar in England

Until I package a pet, the Opera deb works fine, except for one detail. The menu entry ends up in "Utility" . You can edit /usr/share/applications/opera-browser.desktop replacing Categories=Utility with Categories=X-Internet

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OscarTalks

Yes, this is a problem with a few apps, Audacity included. A real pain. I really don't know the solution. Ffmpeg is past version 1.0 now so 0.8x is getting old. We'll leave the jury out on that one for a little while._________________Woof Mailing List | keep the faith |

Here are a couple of jwmconfig2 bugs that were discovered in other Puppy versions, but look to be in Slacko 5.4 as well. Suggested fixes are included.

The first was found in Slacko 5.3.3, so I reported it in the Slacko 5.3.3 thread, but it looks like Slacko 5.4 uses the same version of the script with the bug, so I am adding a link to the bug report here.

The second bug was found in the current jwmconfig2 pet used by Woof when building Precise (jwmconfig2-20111110.pet in the Packages-puppy-noarch-official repo), so I reported it in the Precise 5.4.3 thread. But since Slacko now seems to be maintaining its own jwmconfig2 .pet
(jwmconfig2-121105.pet in the Packages-puppy-slacko14-official repo), and the bug is in that .pet as well, I am adding a link to the bug report here in hopes that the bug can also be fixed in that .pet.

I upgraded to Slacko 5.4(Firefox) and I've lost audio on a Dell Latitude D610 (I usually stream internet radio); I've had no audio problems with the previous versions (5.3.3 and 5.3.1). After I run the audio wizard, I get an initial pop from the speaker and that is all.

I use Slacko/D610 as a backup, because I run an unstable branch on my main notebook.

Here are a couple of jwmconfig2 bugs that were discovered in other Puppy versions, but look to be in Slacko 5.4 as well. Suggested fixes are included.

Thanks for that npierce.

Actually I am doing a full rewrite of all the stuff in jwmconfig2, Joe is releasing a new version soon (he's up to r635 now) and some things have changed. The nifty icon changer for the window buttons will be obsolete as the icons now scale with the height of the title bar.Also, things have changed a little bit in the tray. I envisage 1 gui to control all tray settings. Why do we need a separate gui for tray height, virtual desktops.. etc? I'll probably go with your fixed keyboard script though.

There are also includes that cover includes. This is messy. I'll see what can be done about that._________________Woof Mailing List | keep the faith |

Joe Wing has released JWM-635 which is getting closer to the next stable release.

There are some significant changes which does break some existing configuration tools mentioned in my previous post.

A brief summary;

compositing is fixed

window buttons now scale with title bar height (this breaks the gui to change the buttons)

the entries in the pager and the buttons in the task bar (menu, launchers) are now square, not rounded. This is by design. Windows are still rounded. This partially breaks the launcher gui (mentioned in previous post), as the launcher icons can now have a border or no border. This is controlled inside the <TrayButton> tag with the border="true" or "false". With a border it looks a little like Icewm.

Anyone know how to turn off shading in JWM? My fumble-fingered mousing keeps shading apps. I could install Icewm, but Slacko 540 is so good I don't want to mess it.
** Edit - Joe W, creator of JWM has allowed shading to be disabled - see link. **

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